Nokia poll results show notifications as most valued feature on lock screens

Nokia ran a poll on its blog last week, asking consumers which of the different lock screen features they valued most. Whether it's the notifications, the background images or locking the Windows Phone with a passcode, visitors had the selection of three to choose from. The team has now published the results, which aren't entirely surprising.

The on-screen notifications (whether it be the icons at the bottom, or the detailed alert mid-way up) won over 56 percent of the vote, with background images in third (with 27 percent) and locking the device with passcodes in last place on 16 percent. What would be interesting is if we were to run a similar poll after Microsoft eventually introduces gesture-based screen unlocking on Windows Phone. Would we then see a bump in popularity for lock screen security?

I want a notification center as well the ability to see detailed notifications stack up on the lock screen. That is the thing I miss the most from my iPhone, well that and snapchat but I won't get into that lol.

On screen notifications is where Windows Phone lacks a lot. Notifications don't stay there, only icons that don't give much information and you don't have any real center to view them and they can't access multiplie apps form lock screen notifications. They should rethink it, in my opinion.

The thing is, iphone can do just that. I had an argument recently with a co-worker about how fast information flows on Windows Phone and that I could do many things faster than him. It seems that I was wrong. He got a notification on Facebook on one of his status updates, it showed up on his lockscreen, he swiped it to the right and his app popped up letting him responde to the comment.

I challenged him to post a status update on twitter just to prove my point, I launched the Me tile and he just swiped his status bar from top to bottom and had a twitter status updater hidden, he proceed to type out 'test' and send it. He was faster.

I really didn't like the experience. I always thought WP was better with information than for instance iphone but it seems it's different now.

Going by his words "Showing the last tidbit of information isn't practical, I have all my notifications cronoligically ordered with more than just a picture, I have the whole information".

Hope I don't come across badly, but that experience I had was kinda defeating.

IOS added Twitter integration after the WP7 features were first announced so they had time to copy the idea. They followed up with FB a year later when WP had shown how well integrating it was. It does sound like he's using a special app though...

Gesture codes are cool, but I do love the bottom icons. They let me know if there's anything to look at before choosing to get further "involved" with my phone ("glance-and-go"). A little enhancement of that feature might be nice.

There's a lot of features I'd like to see added to win8phone, but mostly I'd like to be given more choices like when I go into settings why can't I rearrange them so the ones I use the most are on top: Airplaine mode and brightness.

This is what makes windows phone a windows phone. Sadly Microsoft didn't implement their great invention, tap the notification to go to that content such as missed calls, text messages etc and let Apple steal it.

While I have never really got into the Notification arguement, I have to say that Notifications are lacking in WP8. For instance I play Galactic Reign and when a notification comes in, if I don't immediately click it, it is basically worthless.

None of the tiles show a notification occured (icon etc). E.g. nothing on the game hub. If I go into the game hub there is no sign anything was received. It's pretty worthless.

thats normally why nokia puts these polls up on their site, it lets them in on what they may need to inhance or fix to make the use of the overall experience better for customers. this is why i love nokia they actually listen and do these types of things for us to be more comfortable and able to use the phones to best capabitlies it has to offer. their one of the only phone compaines to do it, yea it seems pointless and useless but hey they gotta find out how people feel about certain things to know if they can maybe do something that could overall make it better, and its just a small thing that we wouldn't even really consider before they change it.

now they only thing is to be able to change message notification sounds, and bring on the double tap sleep screen from the N9 then all is right in my phone world. especially if we could change the toasts notifications, we have 2 lumia phones and when a toast pops up we are both popping the phones out to see lol